Boxee Adds Pandora and PBS Apps, Revamps Site

Streaming video provider Boxee is looking past the Hulu debacle with new apps for Pandora and PBS, and an alpha version of its site.

The company hosted a New York City meetup Tuesday night to show off the new additions to its site. The Pandora app will let users access content from the streaming music service via Boxee.com.

"I still remember the first time I used Pandora. It was love at first sound," Boxee CEO Avner Ronen wrote in a blog post. "Now it will be available on Boxee! You can listen to your quickmix, your favorite stations as well as create new stations. Music in the living room has never been better."

The Pandora offering will run on the new Boxee API, Ronen said, which will allow developers to build apps via XML pages and Python scripts. "Developers can now do pretty much whatever they want UI-wise and control the data and metadata around the media," he wrote.

The revamp includes an enhanced version of the Boxee browser based on the XUL framework - the same core architecture used by Mozilla, he said.

"This version's Boxee browser will display any full HTML page, and will try to play video on the page," Ronen wrote. "For example, if you go to a Hulu RSS feed and click on an episode you will see the Hulu page for a few seconds and then the video will start playing in full screen."

Boxeehq has also added an app for PBS content. To install, go to the App Box on the main menu, select Repositories and add dir.boxeehq.com, Ronen said. Boxeehq apps will appear on the New Applications screen.

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